Vincente Minnelli famous quotes

07-12-2025

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Coffee #Sugar #Cream
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#New York #Dancing #Style
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Theater #Born #Painter
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Surrealism
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Way #Surrealism #Painter
Designing Woman was written for the screen.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Design
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#People #Awful #Tracy
It's the story that counts.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Stories
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Stories
It's always the story that interests me.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Directors #Stories #Interest
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Father #Book #Men
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Men #Stories #Sat
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Wonderful #Film
Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Black And White #White #Color
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Art #Cardinals
But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Venezuela #Week #Fantastic
But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Thinking #Important #Deals
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Song #Stars #Important
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Entertainment #Given #Theater
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Character #Color #Stories
I learn new things all the time.
-- Vincente Minnelli
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#New York #Ballet #Firsts
I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.
-- Vincente Minnelli
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Actors #Stories #Chemicals
I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Stories #Vans
I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. Theyâ€™re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Conscious #Hidden Things #Hundred
If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Want
Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Ideas
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
-- Vincente Minnelli

#Book #Competition #Mind

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